Dubai, UAE, January 5, 2005 - ProCurve Networking by HP held a press briefing today to inform the media about their upcoming plans for 2005. Speaking at the briefing today, Ivan Kraemer, Regional Sales & Marketing Director HP ProCurve Networking Business, Middle East, Africa, and Mediterranean confirmed the business unit's successes in 2004 including reaching the number 2 worldwide position for total shipments for the second quarter of last year, as well as achieving status as enterprise networking vendor in the challenger quadrant in the 2004 Magic Quadrant for Global Campus LANs report prepared by research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc.
"We are pleased to kick off this year with a focus on completion and fulfilment of the Adaptive EDGE architecture from HP ProCurve as well as expanding our solution offering into the Wide-Area-Networking market. Further development of partners in our Elite programme is another objective for us. We are also committed to capitalising on business benefits of our MITEL partnership. HP ProCurve Networking is confident that through the purchase of technology from Riverstone, we can continue to deliver hands-on competitive solutions which allow Middle East customers to manage their IT infrastructure and achieve top ROIT," commented Ivan Kraemer, Regional Sales & Marketing Director HP ProCurve Networking Business, Middle East, Africa, and Mediterranean.
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About ProCurve Networking by HP
The ProCurve Networking business unit of HP is a supplier of enterprise networking solutions comprising wired and wireless enterprise networking products, services and solutions - including Ethernet switches, routing switches, wireless access points and network-management applications - which allow customers to build networks based on open standards that meet current and future needs for security, performance and reliability.
More information about ProCurve networking solutions and products is available at www.procurve.com.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2004, HP revenue totalled $79.9 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
HP is the largest IT company in the Middle East employing about 500 professionals in the region. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994 and has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar, Cairo and Ramallah servicing the GCC, the Levant and Egypt. For more information about HP in the Middle East, please visit www.hp.com/me.
Editorial contacts:
Riwa Dabbagh Rola Zaarour
Marketing Manager Hill&Knowlton for HP ProCurve Networking
ProCurve Networking Business rola.zaarour@hillandknowlton.com
Middle East/ Africa & Mediterranean
Hewlett-Packard
riwa.dabbagh@hp.com
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